China News Service, Zhangzhou, October 5 (Reporter Zhang Jinchuan) On October 5, the "Creating the World of Puppets-Yang Yazhou's Works Exhibition" exhibited at the Zhangzhou Library in Fujian Province attracted fans to come to the exhibition.

The exhibition will be held on September 26 and will last until October 8.

Yang Yazhou showed his puppet work "Harlequin" and so on.

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Yang Yazhou displays his traditional puppet work "Matchmaker".

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　　Yang Yazhou, 72, was born in a famous puppet family in Zhangzhou. His ancestors have been engaged in puppet shows for four generations. Now it is passed down to his grandson and is the seventh generation.

Yang Yazhou is currently the provincial non-genetic inheritor of Zhangzhou puppet head carving, a national intangible cultural heritage project. He is also the principal teacher of puppet carving at Shanghai Theatre Academy and the first Chinese to teach puppet carving at the French National Art Center.

Yang Yazhou shows his marionette work.

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　　Yang Yazhou's father, Yang Sheng, is a representative of the "Fuchun School" of Zhangzhou puppet show.

As the eldest son of the family, Yang Sheng has high expectations of Yang Yazhou.

But Yang Yazhou, who is introverted, is not interested in puppet performances, but has a special liking for puppet head carving.

A puppet face-changing work "Nezha" specially made by Yang Yazhou for his grandson.

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　　At the beginning, Yang Yazhou was too young to learn clay sculptures from a well-known folk sculptor.

Then, with his years of clay sculpture skills, Yang Yazhou quickly learned the various techniques of puppet head carving.

A carving knife and a piece of wood, carved with his skillful hands, are vivid and lifelike.

Yang Yazhou introduced his traditional hand puppet works on display.

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　　In the exhibition hall of "Creating the World of Puppets", the puppet works created by Yang Yazhou in recent years are on display. In addition to a complete set of Zhangzhou puppets and carved puppet heads, there are also Quanzhou puppets, Liancheng puppets and traditional northern puppets. Stick head puppet.

Hand puppets represented by Sheng, Dan, Jing, Mo and Chou, and 80 works such as string puppets and stick puppets with the theme of "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and "Shajiabang" are vivid and vividly expressed The ingenuity of the sculptor makes people "like walking into the Puppet Grand View Garden."

Puppet works exhibited by Yang Yazhou.

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　　During the exhibition of his works, Yang Yazhou also gave a themed lecture "The Life of Puppets" for the audience, allowing the audience to have a deeper understanding of the cultural essence of Zhangzhou puppet show and puppet carving, so as to learn the carving culture and experience "intangible heritage" Feel life.

Puppet works exhibited by Yang Yazhou.

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　　"I hope that through such activities, more people, especially young people, will be encouraged to approach the'intangible cultural heritage' and experience our local cultural treasures up close, so that traditional skills can be passed on from generation to generation and carried forward." Yang Yazhou said.

　　In Yang Yazhou's view, the development of intangible cultural heritage puppets should be both inheritance and innovation.

"Innovation should be based on inheritance. Innovation without inheritance is a tree without a root, water without a source, and it cannot have real vitality.

Children visit and exhibit puppet works.

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　　"Puppets will also change their faces. This is a puppet work "Nezha" specially made for my grandson." Yang Yazhou specially introduced to reporters that this work combines the three intangible cultural elements of Zhangzhou puppets, Sichuan opera face-changing, and stick puppets. The new works of Zhangzhou bring new colors to the traditional puppets in Zhangzhou.

In this work exhibition, more than 20 works of outstanding students of the "Zhangzhou Puppet Head Carving Skills Experience Camp" were also exhibited.

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　　In this exhibition, more than 20 outstanding students' works of Yang Yazhou "Zhangzhou Puppet Head Carving Skills Experience Camp" were also exhibited. The students' works are mainly the carving production of Zhangzhou Puppet Head.

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